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Throughout the month of January, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for January 1st to January 31st, 2025.

Articles, Books, & More

1. Bryan T. Camp, The Impact of SEC v. Jarkesy on Civil Tax Fraud Penalties, 27 Fla. Tax Rev. 478 (2025).
2. Gerry W. Beyer, Wills & Trusts, 10 SMU Ann. Tex. Surv. 307 (2024).
3. Gerry W. Beyer, ed., Keeping Current—Probate, Prob. & Prop., Jan./Feb. 2025, at 26.
4. Gerry W. Beyer, Ramifications of Retaining a Client’s Original Will (or a Copy), Est. Plan. Dev. for Tex. Prof., Dec. 2024, at 1.
5. Gerry W. Beyer, 19 & 19A, West’s Legal Forms – Residential Real Estate (5^th ed. 2024-25 Supp.).
6. Victoria Sutton, We Can Protect The “Waters of The United States” As Long As They Stay Out of The Hydrological Cycle, 61 Idaho L. Rev. 89 (2025).
7. Amy Hardberger et al., Greening up the City with Native Species: Challenges and Solutions, Diversity 2025, 17(1), 56.
8. Geoffrey S. Corn & Brandon E. Beck, Massey V. Texas: Eroding the Exclusionary Rule and Incentivizing Police Misconduct, 12 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 177 (2024).
9. Barbara Lauriat, Frand Arbitration Will Destroy Frand, 30 Mich. Tech. L. Rev. 1 (2024).

Op-Eds, Blogs, & Newsletters

1. Prof. Sutton published 5 articles on her blog unintended consequences, including titles such as When New Year Ceremonies were Crimes, Traditional corn and science, Adapting to the Polar Vortex, Fire is medicine, and The Biopracy of Tobacco.
2. Prof. Camp published 1 article on his blog Lessons from the Tax Court, titled The 150 Day Rule For Filing Tax Court Petitions.

Quotations

1. Prof. Beyer is quoted in the following article: Jeff Sanders, Analysis: Bitter Family Fights Have Torpedoed Sports Ownership Groups Before; Could the Padres Be Next?, San Diego Union-Tribune (3:23pm; Jan. 11, 2025).
2. Prof. Corn is quoted in the following article: Dan Gooding, Trump Wants to Brand Cartels as Terrorist Groups. It Could Backfire, Newsweek, (12:59pm; Jan. 9, 2025).

Citations

1. Prof. Murphy’s article Pragmatic Administrative Law and Tax Exceptionalism is cited in the following article: Stephanie H. McMahon, Tax Scholars and the Courts: Applying the APA to Tax Since Mayo, 77 Tax Law. 625 (2024).
2. Prof. Camp’s article A History of Tax Regulation Prior to the Administrative Procedure Act Stephanie H. McMahon, Tax Scholars and the Courts: Applying the APA to Tax Since Mayo, 77 Tax Law. 625 (2024).
3. Prof. Lauriat’s article “The Examination of Everything”: Royal Commissions in British Legal History is cited in the following article: Jonathan Green, The Misunderstood History of Interpretation in England, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 911 (2024).
4. Prof. Beyer’s book Teaching Materials on Estate Planning is cited in the following article: William A. Drennan, Bribing a Survivor to Protect Your Cadaver – Part 1, 39 Prob. & Prop. 30 (2025).
5. Prof. Murphy’s article Punitive Damages, Explanatory Verdict, and the Hard Look is cited in § 8:8 of Federal Jury Practice and Instructions (January 2025 Update).
6. Prof. Casto’s article The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth is cited in the following article: Anthony J Bellia Jr. & Bradford R. Clark, Constitutional Federalism and the Nature of the Union, 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 281 (2024).
7. Prof. Pawlowic’s article Letters of Credit: A Framework for Analysis of Transfer, Assignment, Negotiation and Transfer by Operation of Law is cited in multiple sections within § 5 of Uniform Laws Annotated Uniform Commercial Code (2025 Update).
8. Prof. Corn’s article The Gallagher Case: President Trump Corrupts the Profession of Arms is cited in the following article: Laura A. Dickinson, Protecting The U.S. National Security State From A Rogue President, 16 Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. 1 (2025).
9. Prof. Soonpaa’s article The Continued Vitality of IRAC is cited in the following article: Scott Caron, The Nextgen Bar Exam Meets the Next Generation Law Student: A
10. Revised Approach to Legal Analysis: A Revised Approach to Legal Analysis, 50 U. Dayton L. Rev. 43 (2024).
11. Prof. Murphy’s article The DIY Unitary Executive is cited in the following article: Emily S. Bremer, Presidential Adjudication, 110 Va. L. Rev. 1749 (2024).
12. Prof. Casto’s article Pacificus & Helvidius Reconsidered is cited in the following article: Shalev Gad Roisman, The Limits of Formalism in the Separation of Powers, 16 J. Legal Analysis 178 (2024).
13. Prof. Murphy’s article Democracy, Chevron Deference, And Major Questions Anti-Deference is cited in the following article: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine’s Presumption in Favor of Agency Interpretation of Ambiguous Statutes, 45 No. 9 Construction Litigation Reporter NL 15 (2024).
14. Prof Murphy’s book Administrative Law and Practice is cited in the following article: Natalie Hatton, Rights and Redress for Transgender Survivors of Prison Rape: The Failures of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 539 (2024).
15. Prof. Beyer’s article Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Planning Your Estate is cited in the following article: Zachary L. Catanzaro, Algorithmic Dead Hands: What Is Dead May Never Die, 35 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 83 (2024).
16. Prof. Black’s article Is the IRS The Solution to Illegal Immigration? is cited in the following article: Shayak Sarkar, Internal Revenue’s External Borders, 112 Calif. L. Rev. 1645 (2024).

News

1. Prof. Hardberger’s groundwater project, the culmination of several years of work between her and Gabriel Eckstein, was cited twice in a report to the White House (Footnotes 24 & 25) written by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology about groundwater resilience. Prof. Hardberger maintains that the content from her project was written by and fully credited to her students, with she and Eckstein contributing as editors.
2. On January 10, 2025, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited speaker for the Collin County Bar Association’s Estate Planning & Probate Section. Because of the winter storm that hit Dallas, his presentation was via Zoom and was entitled Confidentiality Breach or Not: Revealing Information About a Client’s Testamentary Documents Post-Mortem.
3. On January 24, 2025, Prof. Beyer was the featured speaker at Estate Planners Day in Tucson, Arizona sponsored by the Southern Arizona Estate Planning Council. His participation included presenting on three topics: “I Prepared the Decedent’s Will” – To Tell or Not to Tell? That is the Question, Escaping the Estate Planning “Blue Screen of Death” with Competent and Ethical Practices, and Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Today’s Estate Planner.
4. On January 26, 2025, Prof. Beyer was the invited virtual guest speaker for the Treasure Coast Exotic Bird Club. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled What If Your Parrot Outlives You? Preparing for Your Bird’s Future.
5. Prof. Humphrey has been selected to receive the 2025 Alumni Achievement Award from her undergraduate alma mater, Westminster College (Fulton, MO). She will receive the prestigious award during the college’s Alumni Weekend (and her 30th college reunion) in April.
6. Prof. Outenreath was invited to serve on the planning committee of the 2025 Choice, Governance & Acquisitions of Entities TexasBarCLE program. Additionally, she was admitted as a member of the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation, and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Texas Federal Tax Institute.
7. Prof. Outenreath continues to serve in multiple leadership positions in the State Bar of Texas Tax Section: Council Member serving as a Law School Representative, Co-Chair of the Law School Outreach and Scholarship Committee, Vice Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee, and a member of the Past Chair Advisory Board.
8. On January 17, 2025, Prof. Beyer was an invited speaker at the 2025 Ski & CLE program in Big Sky, Montana sponsored by the State Bar of Montana. To a combined audience of approximately 200 in-person and virtual attendees, Prof. Beyer presented on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Today’s Estate Planner.
9. Prof. Beyer’s co-authored article, The Viability of Inserting Descriptive Photos in Wills: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, won the Best Cutting-Edge Trust & Estate Article award when the American Bar Association’s Probate & Property magazine announced the winners of the 2024 Excellent in Writing Awards. Prof. Beyer’s co-author, Scout S. Blosser, is a 2023 Tech Law grad who is an associate attorney at the Lubbock law firm of McCleskey, Harriger, Brazill & Graf.
10. Prof. Humphrey was appointed to serve on the Texas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees, with her three-year term beginning June 1, 2025. The Texas Bar Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides significant funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice.
11. Prof. Arrington presented AI & the Law Office at the West Texas Bankruptcy Bar Association Meeting on Friday, Jan. 31.
12. On January 31, 2024, Prof. Beyer was an invited speaker at the 24^th Annual Symposium on Legal Malpractice & Ethics in San Antonio, Texas sponsored by the St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics. His presentation was entitled Don’t Byte Off More Than You Can Chew: Ethical Considerations for the Estate Planner in the World of Generative Artificial Intelligence.

Throughout the month of December, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for December 1st to December 31st, 2024.

Articles, Books, and More

1. Stephen T. Black, Taxing the Digital Economy, 25 Wake Forest J. Bus. & Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2024).
2. Gerry W. Beyer, Potpourri, 62-4 Real Est., Prob., & Tr. L. Rep., at 4 (2024).
3. Gerry W. Beyer, Intestacy, Wills, Estate Administration, and Trusts Update, 62-4 Real Est., Prob., & Tr. L. Rep., at 5 (2024).
4. Amy Hardberger et.al., Innovative Approach to Sustainable Fertilizer Production: Leveraging Electrically Assisted Conversion of Sewage Sludge for Nutrient Recovery, ACS Omega 2024 9 (50), 49692-49706.

Quotations

1. Prof. Corn is quoted in the following article: Sig Christenson, Disgraced Air Force General Tried to Have Reprimand Watered Down. A Judge Said No., San Antonio Express News, (9:00am; Dec. 4, 2024).
2. Prof. Beyer is quoted in the following article: Ashlea Ebeling, His Will Was a Selfie Video, but Courts Ruled It Didn’t Count, Wall Street Journal, (9:00am; Dec. 14, 2024).

Citations

1. Prof. James’ article Twenty-First Century Pirates of the Caribbean: How the Organizaton for Economic Cooperation and Development Robbed Fourteen CARICOM Countries of their Tax and Economic Policy Sovereignty is cited in the following article: Stephen T. Black, Taxing the Digital Economy, 25 Wake Forest J. Bus. & Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2024).
2. Prof. Murphy’s article Can They Do That? The Due Process and Article III Problems of Proposed Findings of Criminal Contempt in Bankruptcy Courts is cited in § 2:23 of Bankruptcy Law Manual 5^th Ed (December 2024 Update).
3. Prof. Murphy’s article Enhancing the Role of Public Interest Organizations in Rulemaking Via Pre-Notice Transparency is cited in the following article: Sharon Jacobs, The Challenges of Participatory Administration, 58 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 323 (2024).
4. Prof. Rosen’s article Targeting Enemy Forces in the War on Terror: Preserving Civilian Immunity is cited in the following article: Steffi Colao, Back Again: How Airborne Strikes Against Al-Shabaab Further U.S. Imperialism, 28 UCLA J. Int’l L. & Foreign Aff. 131 (2024).
5. Prof. Corn’s article The Political Balance of Power Over the Military: Rethinking the Relationship Between the Armed Forces, the President, and Congress is cited in the following article: John C. Dehn, The Good Officer: President Trump, General Milley, and the “Necessity” of Constitutional Fidelity, 90 Brook. L. Rev. 1 (2024).
6. Prof. Corn’s article Strange Bedfellows: How Expanding the Public Safety Exception to Miranda Benefits Terrorism Subjects is cited in § 17:4 of Maryland Law of Confessions (December 2024 Update).
7. Prof. Brie Sherwin’s article Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory: Law, Politics, and Science Denialism in the Era of COVID-19 is cited in the following article: Christine Billy, Preparing for the Climate Crisis: OSHA, Deadly Heat, and Emergency Powers, 51 Ecology L.Q. 57 (2024).
8. Prof. Murphy’s article Constraining White House Political Control of Agency Rulemaking Through the Duty of Reasoned Explanation is cited in the following article: Christine Billy, Preparing for the Climate Crisis: OSHA, Deadly Heat, and Emergency Powers, 51 Ecology L.Q. 57 (2024).
9. Prof. Bubany’s article Taming the Dragon: An Administrative Law for Prosecutorial Decision Making is cited in the following article: Luca Azzariti Crousillat, The Badges and Incidents of Capital Punishment, 103 Tex. L. Rev. 459 (2024).
10. Prof. Baker’s article The Intersectionality of Law and Gender is cited in the following article: Erin Gow, The Value of Law and Library Degrees in the Legal Information Profession, 116 Law Libr. J. 369 (2024).
11. Prof. Murphy’s article The DIY Unitary Executive is cited in the following article: Andrew F. Popper, Democracy on the Brink, Down but Not Defeated, 10 U. Pa. J. L. & Pub. Aff. 1 (2024).
12. Prof. Soonpaa’s article The Continued Vitality of IRAC is cited in the following article: Scott Caron, The NextGen Bar Exam Meets the Next Generation Law Student: A Revised Approach to Legal Analysis, 50 U. Dayton L. Rev. 43 (2024).
13. Prof. Murphy’s book Federal Practice and Procedure 2nd is cited in the following article: Steven Michael McKevett, Between Sky and Space: NEPA’s Extraterritorial Application to the Stratosphere and Implications for SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite Constellation, 36 Geo. Envtl. L. Rev. 375 (2024).
14. Prof. Beyer’s book Texas Law of Wills is cited in the following article: Diane Kemker, Pro-Natalism in Probate Law, 74 Am. U. L. Rev. 367 (2024).
15. Prof. Murphy’s book Administrative Law & Practice is cited in the following article: Bradley Krause, Ghost Guns: A Case Study on the Tension Between Public Exigencies and Statutory Construction, 74 Cath. U. L. Rev. 121 (2025).

News

1. On December 6, 2024, Prof. Beck gave a guest lecture to the combined third-grade classes at Ramirez Elementary School titled “Lawyers and the Constitution” (45 min.).
2. On December 20, 2024, Prof. Beck gave a CLE presentation, by Zoom, to the Wyoming Bar Association titled “Federal Crime Policy and the Second Amendment” (1 hour). Brandon was invited by the University of Wyoming Firearms Research Center.

Throughout the month of November, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for November 1st to November 30th, 2024.

Articles, Books, and More

1. Gerry W. Beyer, Texas Law of Wills (9 & 10 Tex. Prac. 2024-2025 ed.).
2. Gerry W. Beyer & James M. Kosakow, Irrevocable Trusts (4th ed. 2024-2025).
3. Gerry W. Beyer, ed., Keeping Current—Probate, Prob. & Prop., Nov./Dec. 2024, at 26.
4. Gerry W. Beyer, Estate Planning and Probate Law, 87 Tex. B.J. 868 (2024).
5. Brian D. Shannon & Daniel H. Benson, Texas Criminal Procedure and the Offender with Mental Illness (7^th Ed).

Quotations

1. Prof. Corn is quoted in the following article: Sig Christenson, Would Trump try to use the armed forces against “the enemy from within’? We asked the generals, San Antonio Express-News (Nov. 1, 2024; 9:00am).

Citations

1. Prof. Beyer’s book Texas Law of Wills is cited in the following article: Elizabeth S. Miller, Is a Will the Only Way? Transfers on Death and Transfer Restrictions in LLC Agreements, 22 Fla. St. U. Bus. Rev 107 (2024).
2. Prof Beyer’s article Estate Planning in the Digital Age is cited in §2:8, §12:5, and §15:12 of Georgia Trusts and Trustees (November 2024 Update).
3. Prof Beyer’s article Estate Planning in the Digital Age is cited in §2:14, §2:3, and §6:25 of Redfearn Wills and Administration in Georgia (November 2024 Update).
4. Prof. Beyer’s book Modern Dictionary for the Legal Profession is cited in §59:20 of Comparative Environmental Law and Regulation (November 2024 Update).
5. Prof. Watts’ article A Confused Sea: Vicarious Liability for Punitive Damages Under Maritime Law is cited in §5:10 of Admiralty and Maritime Law (November 2024 Update).
6. Prof. Casto’s article The Origins of Federal Admiralty Jurisdiction in an Age of Privateers, Smugglers, and Pirates is cited in §3:1 of Admiralty and Maritime Law (November 2024 Update).
7. Prof. Murphy’s book Federal Practice and Procedure is cited in the following article: David Hutchison, Standing in Texas: Exploring Standing under the Original Meaning of the Texas Constitution, 103 Tex. L. Rev. 227 (2024).
8. Prof. Pawlowic’s article Letters of Credit: A Framework for Analysis Transfer, Assignment, Negotiation and Transfer by Operation of Law is cited in §5 of Uniform Commercial Code (November 2024 Update).

News

1. On November 2, 2024, Prof. Beyer was in Austin where he was a faculty member at the Rocky Mountain Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Prof. Beyer’s presentations and accompany articles were entitled AI in the Trusts & Estates Field and Estate Planning for Cyber Property.
2. On November 7^, 2024, a four-part documentary series titled The Rain We Keep featuring Prof. Hardberger’s participation began airing on Panhandle PBS. The series intends to educate viewers about the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer and describe how affected people are trying to manage, change, and forestall that drawdown.
3. On November 7, 2024, Prof. Beck gave a guest lecture (by Zoom) to Duke University School of Law’s Second Amendment Seminar. The title of the 1-hour lecture was “Federal Crime Policy, Rahimi, and the Supreme Court.”  Brandon’s article, “The Federal War on Guns,” was an assigned reading in the course.
4. On November 8, 2024, Prof. Beyer was in Des Moines, Iowa where he was an invited speaker for the Iowa Academy of Trust & Estate Counsel. To an audience of approximately 100 estate planning attorneys, Prof. Beyer presented his paper entitled Predicting and Preventing Will Contests.
5. On November 12, 2024, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited co-panelist for a program sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law entitled Professors’ Corner—AI Is My Paralegal: Uses of New Technology in Practice.
6. On November 15, 2024, Prof. Beyer was an invited speaker at the 2024 Fall Conference of the National College of Probate Judges in Gulf Shores, Alabama. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Estate Planning for Cyber Property: Electronic Communications, Cryptocurrency, Non-Fungible Tokens, and the Metaverse.
7. On October 18, 2024, Prof. Beck gave a CLE presentation to the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. The title of the 1-hour presentation was “Search and Seizure Issues in the Post-Carpenter Era.”
8. On November 22, 2024, Prof. Henry spoke at the Oklahoma Bar Center on Banking Law Update.